Monday, December 14, 2009

Some More Delicious Code Geass News

After the first announcement about the revival of Code Geass, here comes a new batch of news for Code Geass!!!!

Update regarding the new Code Geass Project in 2010:

If you will try to visit this link, http://www.geass.jp/new_project/index.html, it is a page that is devoted for the upcoming CG project. The page has a message from Code Geass producer Yoshitaka Kawaguchi. According to Kawaguchi, the new project will feature the simultanteous releases of comic series, music, new products under development, and visual works. More details will be revealed in the January issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine, which ships this week.The page has a message from Code Geass producer Yoshitaka Kawaguchi.

Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya (Code Geass: Renya of the Blackness)

Heads up CG boys and girls! According to the January issue of the Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine, Tomomasa Takuma (of Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally) is drawing a new Code Geass manga next year. The manga is tentatively holds the title, Code Geass: Shikoku no Renya (Jet-blacked Renya or Renya of the Blackness) and Goro Taniguchi (of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) is the one conceptualizing and scripting the story.

Plot of the new manga follows the same official Code Geass history as the anime, but in a different era. The title character, Renya, is a 17-year-old boy with a mechanical left arm and shuriken throwing stars as his weapons of choice. The story begins when Renya encounters a mysterious, perpetually young witch named "Reifū C.C." C.C. has appeared in Japan's historical Edo era to seek a new partner for a covenant. Meanwhile, a mysterious man, with a striking resemblance to the character Lelouch of the original anime, also appears with unknown intentions.